Saturday Oct 11, 2025
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Maria Corina Machado
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 has been awarded at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo to Venezuelan Opposition Politician Maria Corina Machado.
It is the highlight of the week of announcements from 6 to 13 October. A total of 338 nominations had been submitted for the award, including 244 individuals and 94 organisations.
“I’m in shock... shocked with joy,” says the 58-year-old on hearing the news
Machado was barred from running in last year’s Presidential Elections won by President Nicolas Maduro. The polls were widely dismissed internationally as neither free nor fair
She has largely been in hiding since those elections.
The Nobel committee recognised her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela” and “her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”
US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award, but nominations closed in January – at the start of his second term in office.
